The #YazidiGenocide vote fell 58-38 along clear party lines. Netanyahu's coalition voted against. The opposition mostly voted in favour. The Arab Joint List--they weren't even in the room.

Deputy FM Tzipi Hotovely explained the official line: "We as a government cannot agree to this bill... until there's a UN resolution on the matter." (This must be the first time Israel is waiting for instructions from the UN for matters of policy.)

The coalition imposed coalition discipline, although Michael Oren tells me there was no specific threat--you just don't defy the government whip. He was in favour of #YazidiGenocide recognition. "You can't fall on every sword."

Yehudah Glick was a co-sponsor of #YazidiGenocide recognition and voted against *his own bill*. He says he was "ashamed" to toe the government line but was obliged to obey coalition discipline.

Michael Oren says he doesn't know why the government ordered him to vote against #YazidiGenocide but he assumes it's because it was an opposition bill.

And why did Joint List (bar Jabareen & Khenin) skip the vote? Ayman Odeh's spox says in principle he's in favour of recognising all "historic injustices", but he just "didn't make the vote". As for the others, they have no idea. There doesn't seem to have been a whip either way.

But the real reason, according to an MFA source: #Israel is worried about precedent. Recognising the #YazidiGenocide would raise awkward questions. What about the Armenian Genocide (despite Turkish anger)? What about the Rohingya Muslims (while Israel sells arms to Myanmar)?

Was this bill an attempt to embarrass the gov't during a tense political time? Sponsor @KseniaSvetlova says she was pushing for ages and got fobbed off, and tabled the bill before Knesset could be dispersed. And nobody has given a real reason why the coalition should oppose it.

Svetlova: "Our state was built from the ashes of the Holocaust... What does 'never again' mean?... I thought until recently that the answer was quite clear but after the voting in the Knesset, I'm no longer sure." She plans to table #YazidiGenocide recognition again soon.

Oh, and Yazidi sex slavery survivor and Nobel Prize Laureate Nadia Murad personally visited the Knesset last year to plead for genocide recognition. The government didn't send a single representative to the committee hearing. #YazidiGenocide

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<Thread👇> How does the @INSSIsrael Plan propose to redraw the #Israeli🇮🇱-#Palestinian🇵🇸 map? (N.B.: This is NOT a proposal for a peace treaty, but a back-up action plan for Israel to start separating from the Palestinians if final-status negotiations prove impossible.)

1/ The basis is Areas A + B from Oslo (40% of the West Bank). B might be expanded to include Palestinian "spillover" into C. PA security control over Area B, as in A. This is basis for a future Palestinian state, and possibly a Palestinian state in temporary borders.

2/ 25% of West Bank from Area C allocated for Palestinian economic development & int'l effort for industrialisation and building. Security and planning responsibility in Israel's hands, to be transferred incrementally to PA. Territorial contiguity, new transportational network.

Corbyn didn’t mention his apparent visit to Auschwitz when he signed the @HolocaustUK Educational Trust Book (when he didn’t mention Jews or antisemitism either). Not in either Holocaust Memorial Day statement as leader of the opposition. (picture: @jeremycorbyn) 3/

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It was difficult to be raped,but what more difficult is to see 9 yrs children being raped by ISIS
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Her 10 yrs niece was kidnapped with her,, though she was 10 yrs she was tortured and raped.
this #YazidiGenocide survivor children were taken to Islamic school,brainwashed and ISIS used them to subdue the mother.
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ISIS fighters enslaved #YazidiWomen and ISIS wives treated them as slaves.
This survivor Said I was enslaved and raped like all Yezidi kidnapped.
While ISIS raped Yezidi women I have heard children being tortured by raping them.
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#YazidiGenocide survivor: ISIS fighter both wives tortured me for refusing to be sex slave for their husband and accused me of Kuffir that’s why I was beaten till I lost conscious and stayed In Hospital 4 days.he bombed himself to get his virgins and eat with prophet @RitaPanahi

1)when ISIS attacked shingal our problem was that we didn’t have a car.
My husband rid with a car a drove to Yezidi shrine call sheikh Mand. I took my children with my brother in law and we started walking, my husband returned to take us. We walked together to mountains at 6 am

2)we got out of our village Ker Azer at 6 am.at 9 am ISIS captured us in front of Mahmood Kero farm north of our village. We were 25 men and 70 women/girls/Children.IS took everything from us money,jewelry,phones. IS separated men from women and killed them.

#YazidiGenocide survivor I was about to die with my little child bcz ISIS wife didn’t give us any food for three days.ISIS forced us to read Quran and convert to Islam. IS shared Yezidi kidnapped as slaves among ISIS fighters in the first days of Genocide @TarekFatah@Imamofpeace

1)when #shingal fell on 3.8.2014 in ISIS hands,my mother was ill,my brother refused to leave her in her bed alone.my aunt with her family came to us,we stayed 1 night in our home.our Sunni neighbors were ISIS supporters.all ways to mountains were blocked by ISIS

2)We moved to Kocho(Yezidi town which has been massacred).a Shop owner came to my brother and asked him to stay home cuz they kill any Ezidi ISIS sees. He added that ISIS beheaded already 9 Ezidis in front of their eyes.we stayed in kocho till 15.8.2014. Day of #KochoGenocide

#YazidiGenocide survivor:we asked our Sunni neighbors to help us,they hid us in their home. Two ISIS cars arrived & captured us. Members of the family from our neighbors were ISIS princes(Amir). her 12 yrs sister was raped,she lost her husband & family @TarekFatah@Cameron_Gray

1)when ISIS attacked we said let’s go to our krif (Sunni neighbors Khudhur khalif Al3fri) in kir Shabak village near from them.we walked to them & two of our men brought the cars. We got the neighbors home and asked to hide us till we get a chance to get the mountains @POTUS

2)or to Rabia district,our Sunni neighbors asked women to go on the roof of the house,asked men to enter the guests room.we saw them acting unnormal,within an hour ISIS cars arrived to captured us,their sons were ISIS members,betrayed us & we didn’t know that #YazidiGenocide